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DUBLIN (AP) - A ruthless IRA splinter group, the Irish National Liberation Army, declared Monday it had fully disarmed but offered no regrets for committing some of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland conflict.
"We make no apology for our part in the conflict," said INLA spokesman Martin McMonagle, who spent seven years in prison for plotting to plant bombs in England and assassinate Northern Ireland's senior Protestant politicians.
Northern Ireland's disarmament chief, retired Canadian Gen. John de Chastelain, confirmed he and other officials had received and destroyed Irish National Liberation Army guns, ammunition, explosives and bomb parts. In a statement he said INLA officials — who have observed a shaky cease-fire since 1998 — had said the weapons represented their entire arsenal.
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